Composer

Join Festival Musicians and Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich as they present a musical fairy tale for all ages. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch is featured in selections from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, and Festival Musicians premiere a new work from José González Granero.

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Fairy Tales, Four Seasons & A World Premiere

Jackson Hole High School

Virtuoso cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and the Jupiter Ensemble bring Vivaldi’s brilliance to life in a programme of concertos, overtures and chamber gems. From the Concerto for 2 Cellos RV531, with Bruno Philippe, to the elegance of the L’Olimpiade overture and the shimmering lute concerto, this is Baroque vitality at its most exhilarating.

EPSG:4326

Nicolas Altstaedt cello; Bruno Philippe cello; Thomas Dunford artistic director, lute; Jupiter Ensemble

Wigmore Hall

From the ticking heart of Haydn’s Clock Symphony to the meditative echoes of Pärt’s Fratres, this program bends time and style. Featuring the luminous guitarist JIJI and guest conductor Ingrid Martin, this concert bridges centuries with elegance and edge.

Haydn's "Clock" Symphony

Detroit Country Day School - Upper School

Our Lady Star of the Sea

First United Methodist Church of Michigan

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

For years, our summer concert at Kleinhans Music Hall has been a thank you to our Donors and Subscribers. This year, we’re excited to welcome everyone because the BPO loves Buffalo and wants to share the music with the whole community! Led by JoAnn Falletta, this concert features a lively program with pieces the BPO musicians love but rarely perform. Celebrate the music, summer, and the community that makes it all possible!

Patron Appreciation Concert

Kleinhans Music Hall

Celebrating the Art of Baroque Concerto, director Marios Papadopoulos steers the Oxford Philharmonic through a programme of youthful energy and dazzling virtuosity. Led by the orchestra’s rising stars, this concert highlights concerto masterpieces by Baroque greats Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann. Full of colour, conversation, and exuberance, this concert is a chance to experience Baroque music at its most exhilarating.

The Art of Baroque Concerto by candlelight

St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London

Celebrating the Art of Baroque Concerto, conductor Marios Papadopoulos steers the Oxford Philharmonic through a programme of youthful energy and dazzling virtuosity. Led by the orchestra’s rising stars, this concert highlights concerto masterpieces by Baroque greats Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann. Full of colour, conversation, and exuberance, this concert is a chance to experience Baroque music at its most exhilarating.

The Art of Baroque Concerto

University of Oxford

The love for music is in Czech genes. There is good reason for the saying: Every Czech is a musician. Czech musicians are rightly considered to be the absolute best in the interpretation of classical music in the world. Do you want to meet them live?Come to a concert of the Prague Music Orchestra chamber ensemble, which originated in the beginning of the 21st century and is one of the most renowned Czech musical ensembles today. It is distinguished by a unique, cultivated sound and it is a representative of highly appreciated interpretation art.

The Great Classical Music

Municipal House

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a vibrant program featuring works by Piazzolla, Paganini, and more. Highlights include de Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Españolas and a transcription of Vivaldi’s “Summer” from The Four Seasons.

Curtis on Tour in Nantucket, MA

St. Paul Roman Catholic Church

The Grammy Award-winning Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire returns to the Venetian Theater with FENCING MATCH, a high-energy program directed by the "charismatic and tireless" Jeannette Sorrell. These "Dueling Double Concertos” pit soloists against one another in a brilliant display of 18th-century virtuosity.

Apollo's Fire

Venetian Theater at Caramoor

As their Wigmore Hall Residency ends, Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, visionary conductor and recorder virtuoso, are joined by Julia Lezhneva, famed for her crystalline voice and effortless command of the true art of bel canto. The Russian soprano, harvester of five-star reviews, applies her delightful artistry to a selection of arias from Vivaldi’s operas and Haydn’s dark-hued dramatic cantata, with its heartfelt response to Ariadne’s abandonment by her lover Theseus.

Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini conductor; Julia Lezhneva soprano

Delirium Musicum

Central Park

In a programme dedicated to recorder concertos, the name of Antonio Vivaldi is an indispensable reference: the author of an impressive number of concertos, well beyond the famous Four Seasons, Vivaldi shaped a language that profoundly marked 18th-century Europe. Alongside him, composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Friedrich Fasch and Giovanni Battista Sammartini were able to offer original and refined interpretations of the concerto form, in an extraordinary variety of styles and formal solutions. It is perhaps surprising that the recorder, often considered an instrument with a limited repertoire, should have been the vehicle for such a rich and international production, capable of reflecting different national identities and, at the same time, an authentically European spirit, even verging on the galant style. This programme thus highlights, together, the concerto as a musical form and the recorder as solo instrument, revealing its expressive breadth and vitality. At the heart of this project is also the theme of cultural exchange between Italy and the Netherlands: many of Vivaldi's works were published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 18th century by the famous publisher Estienne Roger, spreading rapidly throughout Europe and profoundly influencing the musical taste of the time. More than three hundred years later, this ideal dialogue is renewed in the encounter between the flutist Teun Wisse and the Ensemble Locatelli, an artistic partnership born of a shared passion for this repertoire and matured through concerts in various European countries, culminating in a programme designed to celebrate Vivaldi and the immediate and communicative pleasure of a music that, then as now, thrives on energy, exchange and shared joy.

Locatelli Ensemble: FLAUTISSIMO

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

‘I think it’s safe to conclude that another new countertenor superstar has arrived, and he’s found just the right ensemble to work with,’ concluded Gramophone’s critic following the release in 2024 of Carlo Vistoli’s recording of Vivaldi’s famous Stabat Mater setting and Nisi Dominus with the Akademie für Alte Musik. Its reprises both works this evening, placed together with JS Bach’s contemplative solo cantata Ich habe genug and three superb instrumental works.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Carlo Vistoli countertenor

The Four Seasons, Gypsy Airs op.20

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi certainly had no idea that almost three centuries later he would still be one of the most famous composers in the history of music. The successor of the masters of composition of the so-called Venetian school, music teacher and concertmaster in the prestigious orchestra of the Venetian girls' orphanage Ospedale della Pietá, and a renowned instrumentalist throughout Europe, he created over three and a half hundred instrumental concertos. The orchestra of the institution financed by the Venetian Republic was obliged to perform at masses and religious and secular celebrations, several times a month, which is why Vivaldi's creative period was unusually fruitful. Evil tongues claim that he copied individual compositions himself. The largest part of them is, of course, intended for the violin. They demonstrate an exceptionally rich melodic invention and Vivaldi's great feeling for the character of instrumental stylization.

Four Seasons

Imperial Baths

Hear world-famous actor John Malkovich recite from Ernesto Sabato's classic novel On Heroes and Tombs. Along with a piano concerto by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke with Anastasya Terenkova as soloist! In addition, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons will be performed by The Funäs Chamber Soloists with a recitation of prose by Johan Rabaeus before the intermission.

Report on the Blind

Royal Swedish Opera

The Best of Classics

The cello, long confined to the bass, rises to imitate the violin and reveal all its virtuosity. Exploring previously unpublished works by composers such as Giulio Ruvo, Giorgio Antoniotto, and Vivaldi, this concert tells the fascinating story of the instrument and its popular origins, sometimes meditative, sometimes exuberant. An invitation to discover an instrument in full emancipation.

And the cello suonò

Opéra Comédie

The barking of a dog, the buzzing of flies, a drunkard staggering home: these are just a few of the pictures ingeniously painted in Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Published in 1725, his set of four violin concertos was staggeringly ahead of its time, a forerunner to the ‘programme music’ of Liszt, Berlioz and Richard Strauss over a century later.

Still, it is the musical backdrop to these events – the atmosphere Vivaldi creates across the length of each concerto – that sticks with the listener longest. This rich, shimmering collection is a celebration of contrasts: from spring’s freshness and summer’s heat to the mellow fruitfulness of autumn and the chill of winter.

The Four Seasons

Huddersfield Town Hall

Adrian Wittmer, bassoon

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

These Seasons are “half” because they interweave famous jazz standards with Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The narrative thread follows the cycle of the seasons, understood not only as a natural phenomenon, but as a metaphor for love and the human condition. A journey that reflects the parable of life: every end already contains a new beginning.

Italian Philharmonic Orchestra: THE HALF SEASONS

The Terre Haute Symphony League is thrilled to host a special Luminous Strings event on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at the BankOnArt Gallery in Brazil, IN benefitting the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra! This special presentation of Luminous Strings will feature the THSO String Quartet performing pop, rock, and classical music favorites surrounded by hundreds of candles to accompany the BankOnArt Gallery's current exhibit titled BLOOM/HUM/GLOW! Seating is general admission (all ticket holders are guaranteed a seat). Light refreshments will be available.

Luminous Strings

BankOnArt Gallery

Vivaldi’s Venice was a thriving cosmopolitan centre. A meeting point of the European Renaissance with the cultures of North Africa and all corners of the Mediterranean, “La Serenissima” was alive with a kaleidoscope of tastes, sights and sounds – and its musical culture was no exception.

Superlative countertenor Iestyn Davies leads an unmissable exploration of this rich world. Written for performance at dusk, Vivaldi’s deeply atmospheric solo cantata Nisi Dominus evokes an extraordinary array of musical colours. It forms a rich thread through the evening, and its centrepiece “Cum dederit” is a moment of transcendent beauty unmatched in Baroque music.

Vespers

Smith Square Hall

Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer invites you to savor an intimate bouquet of Baroque treasures, featuring the return of soprano Amanda Forsythe. From Handel’s expressive arias to Bach’s luminous “Wedding Cantata,” each piece unfolds like a flower in full bloom. On the second half, LACO cuts loose with Telemann’s Don Quixote suite and Biber’s Battalia, inviting you to dance into the night at this wedding themed program.

Baroque In Bloom

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

The Huntington

As part of the upcoming edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal, the Mini Violini concert will feature young violin prodigies aged 10 to 14 from around the world. The Agora Orchestra, conducted by Benoit Gauthier, will perform Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons with these young talented violinists.

 Mini Violini

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Rimsky-Korsakov - Shéhérazade

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Driven by infectious energy and great interpretative finesse, the ensemble takes on some of Johann Sebastian Bach's finest concertos, combining virtuosity, balance, and expressiveness. A luminous program that highlights the richness of instrumental dialogue so dear to the Leipzig master.

Bach Concertos

Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons (with his accompanying sonnets) and Piazzolla’s sultry Four Seasons of Buenos Airesmeet in a program where time, place, and style intertwine. From the bright renewal of Spring to the icy slips of Winter, Vivaldi paints nature in Baroque brilliance. One of the earliest examples of “program music,” his work evokes creeks, birds, storms, drunken dancers, and warm fires. Piazzolla’s southern-hemisphere vision pulses with tango rhythms and urban melancholy, reframing the seasons through the lens of Buenos Aires. Together, they create a striking dialogue across centuries and continents—earthy, electric, timeless, and dazzlingly performed by the Vivace Baroque Orchestra, a group of fourteen top-tier New York musicians who gather for periodic tours. 

Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

There are seasons all over the world, but depending on where we are, they look – or sound – different. Around 300 years ago, Antonio Vivaldi set spring, summer, autumn, and winter to music in a "European" way in his concert cycle "The Four Seasons." Kala Ramnath, in turn, explores the seasons of her home country India (divided into six periods) in her composition "Indian Seasons," arranged by the accomplished composer and sitar player Indro Roy-Chowdhury. Following the opening concert – together with the celebrated percussionist Bickram Ghosh – the master of the Indian violin will then contrast her musical impressions of the cycle of the seasons with Vivaldi's famous concertos. Both works will enter into a global, not merely meteorological, dialogue – at the height of the Duisburg spring – which is thematically complemented by Kala Ramnath's new work "Panchabhoota – The Voice of Nature." In five movements, the composer deals with the classical Indian pentad of the primal elements ether (Akash), air (Vayu), fire (Agni), water (Āpas) and earth (Prithvi).

East-Western Seasons

Steinhof Duisburg

Vivaldi's Voices

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Disguise, desire, and political intrigue drive Vivaldi’s rarely staged Arsilda, regina di Ponto, a fast-moving drama of love and hidden identity. After Prince Tamese is believed lost at sea in a shipwreck, his sister Lisea disguises herself as her brother to secure the kingdom’s future, only to find herself betrothed to his fiancée. Vivaldi’s brilliant score shifts effortlessly between comic sparkle and psychological depth. Opera Neo’s American premiere of Arsilda offers a captivating theatrical ride and a timeless meditation on love, identity, and renewal.

Arsilda

First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego - Hillcrest

Under the direction of Bruce Walker, the Walla Walla Symphony Youth Orchestra (WWSYO) will present their concert for the Spring session, featuring the winners of the WWSYO Concerto Competition.

Walla Walla Symphony Youth Orchestra Concert: From Shadow to Light

Walla Walla Community College

The Thuringia Philharmonic Orchestra Gotha-Eisenach is performing.

Free concert by the district administrator in the church in Altenbergen – admission free → donations welcome

Kloster St. Gabriel

Antonio Vivaldi is known across all continents today. Among other things, he has his four violin concertos from his Opus 8 of 1725 to thank for this, which are considered to symbolise the art of Baroque music-making. Vivaldi himself summarised them as the ‘Four Seasons’ and under this title they are still among the best-known works from the Baroque period. Very virtuosic and full of small and large affects, they present the great wealth of colour of their era. These violin concertos are made for the top Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and the Camerata Salzburg, because rediscovering the classics of music history is their speciality. We can look forward to the breath of fresh air that the musicians, who are well attuned to each other, will blow through the familiar scores in May. And even more virtuoso baroque music can be experienced in this concert when Francesco Geminiani's Concerto grosso in D minor is performed that evening in the Alte Oper. (Pro Arte Frankfurt)

Janine Jansen, violin

Alte Oper

Jack Pasacreta, bassoon

In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga set out to explore Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. The starting point for this new choreographic work is the exquisite recording of Vivaldi’s composition by virtuosic violinist and long-time Rosas collaborator Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti.

Rosas - Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione

Sadler's Wells Theatre

Step into a concert alive with energy, color, and transformation! For the very first time, a Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra joins the String Principals Quartet. In this special event, feel the sparkle of birdsong and the crash of summer storms in Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Summer,” then be charmed by the playfulness and lyric beauty of Dvořák’s Seven Interludes. It’s an afternoon of vivid storytelling through music—and the start of something new. Additional musical selections to be announced soon!

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Schuster Center

Elevate your musical experience with our Sound of Innovation performances. This distinctive series, where innovation meets classical virtuosity, immerses you into a mix of traditional and contemporary compositions. Your experience includes dinner and a drink ticket

The Sound of Innovation

The Club Room at The Clyde

One of perhaps two handfuls of the most famous works in the entire history of music is exactly 300 years old – and still enjoys immense popularity: Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is actually a collection of four violin concertos that capture the seasons in impressively audible tones. Spring thunders and lightning, summer suffers from the heat, farmers celebrate in autumn, and winter bites with cold. We hear the forces of nature, animal sounds, and human life in the cycle of a year. Host Thomas Scholz takes the young listeners on a journey through Vivaldi's masterpiece, which not only demonstrates the capabilities of program music, but also the versatility of a solo violin's sound.

Free Waldorf School Göttingen

Janine Jansen has no problem playing popular works like Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" again and again, because, as she says, "ultimately, every interpretation is unique." The CAMERATA audience can also expect such unique performances when the orchestra's artistic partner embarks on an adventurous and atmospheric journey through the Italian seasons of the early 18th century, still unclouded by climate change. The music magazine Stereoplay praised Janine Jansen's performance of "The Seasons" as "a completely natural, breathing flow." Janine Jansen also brings two other great Italian Baroque violinists into play, bundled together in one work: Vivaldi's contemporary Geminiani reworked a violin sonata by Corelli on the voluptuous Portuguese dance "folía" into a brilliant concerto grosso. Jansen and the CAMERATA will demonstrate how productive this concert form still is in our time in a string concerto by film music king Nino Rota from 2007 and a charming concerto combination for string quartet, string orchestra and harpsichord by Richard Dubugnon from 2020.

Season Concert Five: The Four Seasons

Mozarteum Foundation

Wind Division Recital

560 Music Center

Bob Bernhardt conducts Dominique Kim and the orchestra in a must-hear version of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dreams, Suite No.2. Join us at St. Cecilia for an evening of music and fun for a concert that is filled with ancient dreams being brought to life.

An Evening Concert with Bob

St. Cecilia Music Center

Join the Grand Rapids Symphony and Bob Bernhardt as he makes his debut on the chamber series. He will conduct a must-hear performance of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No.2. Coffee and doughnuts will be available before the concert.

Coffee with Bob

What hardly anyone knows: nowhere else (outside Argentina) is as much tango played and danced as in Finland, nowhere else in the world is so much coffee and milk drunk, and what was previously only known to the initiated: one of the best baroque orchestras comes from Helsinki! In 1989, news of the historically-informed performance practice also reached Finland; young professional musicians founded an ensemble that was called the ‘Sixth Floor Orchestra’ for 20 years, named after the practice room (without a lift!). Initially they gave guest performances in neighbouring Scandinavia, but the unconventional group soon made a name for itself in Canada and China with excellent reviews. They have brought Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann with them to the concert in Frankfurt, where the overture, concerto and suite will give them ample opportunity to demonstrate how double dotting, ornamentation and historically informed bowing is done in Finland. The connection with water and tides is certainly felt more intensely on the Nordic coasts, which is why Telemann's orchestral suite ‘Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth’ from 1732 is a fitting homage to the all-connecting ocean. (Frankfurter Bachkonzerte e. V.)

Finnish Baroque Orchestra

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

Bassoon Quartet

Église Saint-Pierre de Palavas-Les-Flots

Baroque music is often presented as grand, serious and a little... cautious. However, the ensemble "Dar vieni" thinks differently. They invite you to a concert in which Baroque is freed from museum frames - it is alive, pulsating. For the ensemble, Baroque is not only counterpoints and ornaments. It is an era in which emotions are no less than today, you just need to blow the dust off it. The ensemble wants to take this music in your hands, move it, feel how it breathes. It wants the listener to be more than just an observer - to get involved, feel the rhythm, emotion, and maybe even forget that they are sitting in a concert hall. Because Baroque music was not written for museums, but for people. It was intended to celebrate, mourn, express passion and inner vibrations - and it still can. You just need to let it live.

"Another One" - Baroque Without Dust

Paliesius Manor

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble presents a classical music concert on period instruments of the music of J.S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.

Bach Encounters Vivaldi / The Weimar Years: 1708-1717

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church

Upcoming highlights of ArcoStrum’s 2024-2025 season include debuts at Merkin Hall, Krannert Center, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Howland Chamber Music Circle, Rancho La Puerta, and Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society. Recent seasons have featured performances at Carnegie Hall Citywide, Strings Music Festival, Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts, Festival Cultural Zacatecas (Mexico), National Sawdust, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and Caramoor.

ArcoStrum

Bethel United Methodist Church

Immerse yourself in the sounds of the seasons with Vivaldi's most famous set of violin concertos. Acclaimed violinist Timothy Chooi plays and conducts the Calgary Phil in these remarkable works that evoke such seasonal phenomena as singing birds, buzzing flies, violent thunderstorms, and icy blizzards, as well as vibrant scenes portraying a sleepy goatherd and his barking dog, a harvest celebration, and a warm winter fire.

Arts Commons

The Belgian formalist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker — one of the world's most celebrated choreographers — ignites the Walker stage with her ecstatic collaboration featuring rising Moroccan-Belgian star Radouan Mriziga. Together they breathe new life into one of classical music’s most iconic works, Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” While Mriziga and De Keersmaeker draw from very different movement vocabularies, the two artists share a keen interest in geometry, nature and humankind’s increasingly troubled relationship with the natural world.

“Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione”

Walker Art Center

Eboracum Baroque performs one of the most famous pieces of baroque music ever written in the 18th century arrangement for recorder, harpsichord and cello, an arrangement which Vivaldi knew and supported. It is truly virtuosic and at times features two recorders being played at once!  The music takes the listener on a journey through the four seasons from the singing of birds in Spring, a fierce thunderstorm in Summer, celebrating the harvest festival in Autumn and trembling in the icy cold of Winter.

Eboracum Baroque

Leeds Conservatoire

Concert lesson

lower secondary school Renato Fucini

Italian violinist and conductor Fabio Biondi, world-renowned for “blazing, fierce performances” (Washington Classical Review) with his ensemble Europa Galante, brings his irrepressible energy to the Orchestra as he leads a high-voltage program centered around Vivaldi, those who inspired him (Geminiani and Corelli), and those he inspired, like Nardini and Pugnani. Concertmaster Gina DiBello joins Biondi for Vivaldi’s Concerto for 2 Violins in G Minor. Make new discoveries and hear familiar favorites afresh!

Vivaldi & Friends

Harris Theater

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

No other animal sounds resemble music as much as birds. Many composers have thus been inspired by nightingales, larks, swans and other feathered artists of flight and song. A concert in cooperation with the Phil-CO2 Initiative and the Landesbund für Vogel- und Naturschutz (LBV).

Bird­song

Nuremberg State Theater

Gianandrea Noseda and the Zurich Opera Orchestra – a well-rehearsed team, masterfully skilled at the intense portrayal of powerful emotions and supporting famous voices. Together with star soprano Regula Mühlemann, they present a collage of Passion-themed works at the Elbphilharmonie this Easter, focusing on the figure of the suffering Mother of God.

Orchester der Oper Zürich / Regula Mühlemann / Gianandrea Noseda

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Bella Italia

Granada Theatre

Charismatic and accomplished violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte returns to Berkeley with his ensemble partner from Le Consort, harpsichordist Justin Taylor, for a thrilling program of Baroque showpieces.

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin Justin Taylor, harpsichord

University of California, Berkeley

Undoubtedly the finest example of the baroque tradition and the most popular of the composer's 350 concertos, a recital of his enchanting and magnificent Four Seasons is an essential experience for any fan of classical music, be it your first time or your fiftieth. Presented under flickering candlelight, enjoy Vivaldi's sensational work performed by a talented string quartet in this fever original event.

Candlelight: Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Wadham College

Michael Abels’ More Seasons is a modern interpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, specifically “Spring” and “Summer,” but with a “maniacal, Minimalist abuse” of the original themes, as Abels himself has stated. It’s often described as “Vivaldi in a Mixmaster.” A review of the first performance stated that Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto “is the most admirable, singular, artistic and complex Beethoven concerto ever.” Written in 1855 at the age of 17 and never played during his lifetime, Bizet’s Symphony in C was “discovered” in 1933. It has been in the symphonic repertoire ever since due to its beautiful melodies, rich orchestration, and elegant charm.

Beethoven & Bizet

Duluth Entertainment Convention Center

Ottone in villa

Teatro Malibran

You've never seen the Four Seasons like this! A fascinating multimedia experience for all the family.

Germany from above - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

The Peninsula Symphony is thrilled to present the iconic Canadian Brass in concert with the Peninsula Symphony, led by guest conductor Brad Hogarth. With over 2 million album sales and decades of Billboard chart-topping hits, the Canadian Brass’ success is unmatched, acknowledged by sold-out audiences throughout the world. Their program includes many of their great hits, and spans the musical world from Bach to jazz to the Beatles. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the amazing Canadian Brass.

Canadian Brass

Heritage Theatre

Capuchino High School

This all-strings program features FMSO’s string section while concertmaster, Sonja Bosca-Harasim, takes center stage as the featured soloist in Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, creating a dialogue between Baroque elegance and 20th-century tango.

The Seasons of Vivaldi & Piazzolla

North Dakota State University

Step into the grandeur of the Baroque era in Legacy Hall with a thrilling musical showdown between Italy’s fiery virtuosity and England’s stately elegance. The South blazes with the dazzling brilliance of Vivaldi, Corelli, and Torelli, their music overflowing with passion and intricate ornamentation. The North counters with the regal splendor of Handel’s Water Music, featuring majestic horns and sweeping melodies that evoke the power of England’s royal courts. Between the musical duels, enjoy an extended intermission with a delightful reception, where the echoes of Baroque opulence linger in the air.

CSO: N vs S: Battle of Baroque

RiverCenter for the Performing Arts

This delightful concert features Vivaldi’s beloved Four Seasons, Holst’s Lyric Movement, and Mozart’s majestic Jupiter Symphony, performed by the talented Amarillo Chamber Orchestra.

Seasons of Celestial Joy

St Andrew's Episcopal Church

Welcome spring with one of classical music’s most recognizable works, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Antonín Dvořák’s cheerful and melodic piece for string orchestra, Serenade in E major op. 22 is known for its light, graceful character, often described as idyllic and peaceful.

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons

Trinity Christian College

The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding.

The Devil’s Violin

ACO On The Pier

Austrian recorder player Dora Donata Sammer is one of the most exciting voices of the younger generation. As a soloist and chamber musician, she captivates audiences with her stylistic versatility and bold exploration of sound. In our popular Lounge Concert series, she re-examines the boundaries between early and contemporary music.

2. Through each other

New Theater Halle

Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra have Vivaldi in their blood. More precisely, in their bow. The Venetian master composer translated the chatter of his hometown into musical characters. To enhance the international flair of her performance of the popular Four Seasons, Marcon’s musical native speakers have invited a French-Swiss baroque violinist with Armenian roots. Chouchane Siranossian is a star on her instrument who we look forward to presenting at the Festspielhaus.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Let’s all agree: The Four Seasons is an undisputed classical Top 40s hit. But, when Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital plays it, you’ll feel like you’re hearing it for the first time — fresh and irresistible. Part of your fun will be listening to Vivaldi’s spot-on sound effects—birds, a barking dog, gnats and flies, the chattering of teeth, and slipping on ice. This is a piece for all seasons! Plus, Mozart’s “Haffner,” with a frolicking finale that he instructed had to be played “as fast as possible.”

Mozart & Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The moment when there is no turning back, no “return to what was,” runs through this multi-part ballet evening. Xie Xin and Marcos Morau, two extraordinary and internationally acclaimed artists, are creating world premieres for Hamburg Ballet for the first time. The “point of no return” is explored by Angelin Preljocaj in *Annonciation*, at the moment of the biblical Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel.

Point Of No Return

Ballettzentrum Hamburg – John Neumeier

BroadStage presents a spectacular collaboration of musical excellence as Avi Avital, considered by many to be the world’s greatest mandolinist, takes the stage with the renowned Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra! Hailed by The New York Times as “explosively charismatic” in live performance, Avital is the first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical GRAMMY® Award. He is known for reinvigorating the mandolin and shaping its history and future, while playing it in the most prestigious halls all over the world. 

Avital is joined by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, praised by The New York Times as “America’s leading historically informed ensemble.” Among the most recorded orchestras in the world, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performs on period-specific instruments, presenting repertoire ranging from early Baroque to late Romantic, along with new contemporary works and major operatic productions.

Composer

Antonio Vivaldi

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Jun 18 - Aug 31, 2026

The Best of Classics · Prague Music Orchestra

Jun 28 - Aug 28, 2026

The Four Seasons, Gypsy Airs op.20 · Prague Music Orchestra

Jul 15 - Aug 29, 2026

The Great Classical Music · Prague Music Orchestra

Aug 9, 2026

Sinfonia Smith Square’s Guide to Italy · Sinfonia Smith Square

Past events

Jul 30, 2026

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Fairy Tales, Four Seasons & A World Premiere · Grand Teton Music Festival

Jul 27, 2026

Nicolas Altstaedt cello; Bruno Philippe cello; Thomas Dunford artistic director, lute; Jupiter Ensemble · Wigmore Hall

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